I . R . T Real Estate Worth Millions To Be Sold Soon
January 14 , 1920
Notes :
- President Hedley Says company is forced to get funds to avoid receivership
- Sites Are in Grand Central Zone, The Bronx, And Long Island City
- " As An Emergency Measure to Save the Interborough Rapid Transit Company Form Going into the Hands of a Receiver," - Frank Hedley
- The President of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, announced Last Night that All the Unused Real Estate in New York State Held by the Company, valued at several million dollars, would be sold to the public auction to the highest bidder by Joseph P. Day in April Next
- This Real Estate Consist of both of Vacant and Improved of all Classes of Reality [ From Buildings in the Grand Central Terminal Zone to Vacant Lots in the Bronx, and Valuable Holdings in Long Island City
- Locations Of the Properties
Among The Properties Listed to be Sold Are : [ 156 - 158 East Forty-Second Street, A three Story fire Proof Store And Office Building with Foundations for two additional Stories. ]
- Properties To Be Sold Subject to Queensboro easement owned by the city
- Jackson Avenue,Long Island City, in The Hunter Point Section, is the location of the first station in Queens on Queensboro subway and of a valuable interborough holding now to be sold to the highest bidder subject to a station easement
Question :
1) Why was it sold to the highest bidder subject ?
The Growth Of the Bronx
February 8, 1920
Notes :
- Population has increased 2,100 percent. Since 1874
- The area acquired consisted about fifty sparsely settled villages, with a population of approximately 33,000.
- The "Huckleberry Road" horse cars, was replaced by the first trolley lines of the Union Railway Company in 1892
- In 1895, additional land was acquired from Weschester County and added to the city, comprising a little more than 14,500 acres east of the Bronx River, known as "The Annexed District," giving a total area to the Bronx of about 26,800 acres, or approximately forty-two square miles, with a population of about 100,000.
- Between the years of 1895 and 1900 the population figures reached the total of 201,000
- In the 1915 the Bronx population had reached the 631,000 mark.
- The opening of Jerome Avenue extension of the Lexington Avenue subway of the White Plains Avenue subway of the old subway, and of the Hunt's Point Branch of the Lexington Avenue subway, have been potent determining factors in the more recent population strides
- Throgs Neck and Unionport sections will be with forty minutes of City Hall
Questions :
1) Why was additional land acquired from Weschester County to the City ?
2) Why was the "Huckleberry Road" Replaced and not any other road for the first trolley lines of the Union Railway Company in 1892 ?
Boom Predict For East Bronx Section
April 11, 1920
Notes :
- Old Residential Sections will be greatly benefited by new transit facilities
- Bronx ----> Area of which is about a mile square, and which is bounded on the north, east and west by Yonkers and Mt. Vernon and on the south by the City of New York
- The section of the annexed district consist a number of old residential settlements
- Jackson Ville, Washingtonville and Edenwald sections became populated with a substantial class of citizens who built their homes there and then waited for advent of improved facilities
- The Most important thoroughfares of this section are White Plains Road, Baychester Avenue, or East 241st Street and Nereld Avenue, or East 238th Street
- Stations on the White Plains Road Subway are located at Baychester and Nereld Avenues
- It is the expectation that the principal activity in local building operations will materialize in the early future in the immediate vicinity of these stations along the route of the White Plains Road Subway
Questions :
1) Why was their only three sections that populated with a substantial class of citizens ?
2) How Come there wasn't more important throughfares ?
More Cars for Third Avenue Elevated
April 25, 1920
Notes :
- Third Avenue Elevated will be increased by the addition of two cars to each train between 9:30 and 10 A.M
- Inspectors of the Public Service Commission were to the effect that the trains were overloaded in the morning rush hours
- Passengers found it impossible to board trains
- Public Service Commissioner Lewis Nixon has told the Interborough Rapid Transit Company that the northbound service between 5 and 6:30 P.M should also be improved
- The Company promised to amend its schedules to the end that adequate service might be rendered
Questions :
1) Why not just put more cars on the Train so it wont be overcrowded ?
2) Why wouldn't they improve the time Schedule with additional cars to the cars ?
3) The improvement of Third Avenue Elevated shouldn't only be Third Avenue station but threw out the Bronx , Why didn't they think of that during that time ?
New Transit Line Opened
May 30, 1920
Notes :
- Extension from Hunts Point to 177th Street put into Operation
- An additional section of the east side rapid transit system, extending two and a quarter miles from Hunts Point Avenue to 177th Street
- Passengers that want to reach the temporary terminal on the north will have to use the shuttle trains from 177th street
- It expected that the remaining section from 177th Street to Pelham Bay Park will be completed by this Fall
- The cost for the extension to Pelham Bay Park will be a total of $5,287,000
Questions :
1) How did they manage to pay the cost of the Pelham Bay Park Extension when they had other Extensions in progress ?
Secondary Source Documents :
New Subways From the Northern Borough
From : Lloyd Ultan
The Northern Borough : A History of The Bronx
Bronx,NY : The Bronx County Historical Society
2009
Notes :
New Subways :
- One of the Major cause of change in The Bronx after World War 1 was the completion of the new subways lines
- The first came 149th street, some trains connected with the original Bronx subway line, but others swung over onto a new line to River Avenue
- Proceeded Northward along River Avenue, then Along Jerome Avenue terminating at Woodlawn Cemetery
- The New Line Of the Woodlawn - Jerome line of the Lexington Avenue Subway opened July 17, 1918
- At the time the original Bronx subway line was extended further
- Subway Extension Opened as the the White Plains Road Line On December 13, 1920
- 8 days later the first subway line open serving easternmost portion of the Bronx
- The Pelham Bay Lined Open
- Branched off from the Lexington Avenue line soon after it crossed under the Harlem River
- The purpose of these new lines was to provide access for the people huddle in crowded Manhattan tenement districts to the more open and healthier spaces of The Bronx and the other boroughs to ease congestion on the island and give them the ability to commute to their jobs
- The Plan was successful
- In the process, just as with the New York Harlem River Railroad, the Third Avenue Elevated, and the original subway line, it served as a catalyst for the rapid development in the areas of The Bronx they Served
From : The Bronx in the Bits and Pieces
Bill Twomey
Bloomington : Rooftop Publishing, Inc.
2007
Date : December 5, 1996
Notes :
The Third Avenue El :
- The Third Avenue El was constructed in 1879
- Private Capitalist even had personal cars attached to bring them to work in style
- These were the days of the wooden cars
- Only when the subway was constructed in 1904 that electricity was used to power the The Third Avenue El
- Others will recall the " Q " cars that served the 1989 Worlds Fair with a variety of modifications
- The five-cent fare was inaugurated on October 1, 1886 and was not increased until 1948, when it went up to ten cents
- Little tokens about the size of a dime made their appearance in 1958 and cost 15 cents, today they are often used in jewelry as a remembrance of a gentler era
- In 1886, the Third Avenue El was extended into the Bronx , when the area was still known as the " Annexed District "
- Numerous opportunities opened for the people of the area wishing to work in Manhattan and live in a more countrified section
- The population soon exploded, and vacant land became scarce and valuable
- Controversy surrounds the demolition of the El
- Service in the Bronx was at first curtailed
- On Thursday, May 12, 1955, the last uptown run from Chatham Square to the Bronx commenced at 6pm with approximately 600 passengers
- Demolition crews entered this fair borough in August to begin the dismantling process
Video :
Notes :
New York City Subway Video :
- The subway boosters made a promise from City Hall to Harlem in 15 minutes
- I . R .T Generation system would be the most powerful of the world
- Month by Month the pieces came together , dynamo, switches, tunnels, platforms, track, and cars
- On October 27, 1904 , Everything was in place
- The Opening of the I . R . T was the most talked about event in New York since the Civil War
- The Subway was an insanity of an everyday life
- People complained about the subway because it was to crowded and it didn't go to far
T Q R :
I Am Studying The Pelham Bay Park Because I Want To Prove That The Extensions and The Addition of the Cars Weren't Help At First
Thesis Statement :
The Pehlam Bay Avenue And Third Avenue Elevated Extension Was All Taken Place in The 1920's, But Wasn't Been Seen As A Great Change in America Because People Said That It Got Over crowded And Needed To Add Cars To The Train During Rush Hours.
Essay :
In The 1920's their was an extension built to the Pehlman Bay Avenue and The Third Avenue, The Cost to that Extension built was $ 5,287,000. In the begging of the construction, everybody was so excited about the construction at the moment. The Pelhman Bay Avenue And Third Avenue Elevated Extension was been talked about a lot during the Period of time of 1900 - 1920.
January 14 , 1920
Notes :
- President Hedley Says company is forced to get funds to avoid receivership
- Sites Are in Grand Central Zone, The Bronx, And Long Island City
- " As An Emergency Measure to Save the Interborough Rapid Transit Company Form Going into the Hands of a Receiver," - Frank Hedley
- The President of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, announced Last Night that All the Unused Real Estate in New York State Held by the Company, valued at several million dollars, would be sold to the public auction to the highest bidder by Joseph P. Day in April Next
- This Real Estate Consist of both of Vacant and Improved of all Classes of Reality [ From Buildings in the Grand Central Terminal Zone to Vacant Lots in the Bronx, and Valuable Holdings in Long Island City
- Locations Of the Properties
Among The Properties Listed to be Sold Are : [ 156 - 158 East Forty-Second Street, A three Story fire Proof Store And Office Building with Foundations for two additional Stories. ]
- Properties To Be Sold Subject to Queensboro easement owned by the city
- Jackson Avenue,Long Island City, in The Hunter Point Section, is the location of the first station in Queens on Queensboro subway and of a valuable interborough holding now to be sold to the highest bidder subject to a station easement
Question :
1) Why was it sold to the highest bidder subject ?
The Growth Of the Bronx
February 8, 1920
Notes :
- Population has increased 2,100 percent. Since 1874
- The area acquired consisted about fifty sparsely settled villages, with a population of approximately 33,000.
- The "Huckleberry Road" horse cars, was replaced by the first trolley lines of the Union Railway Company in 1892
- In 1895, additional land was acquired from Weschester County and added to the city, comprising a little more than 14,500 acres east of the Bronx River, known as "The Annexed District," giving a total area to the Bronx of about 26,800 acres, or approximately forty-two square miles, with a population of about 100,000.
- Between the years of 1895 and 1900 the population figures reached the total of 201,000
- In the 1915 the Bronx population had reached the 631,000 mark.
- The opening of Jerome Avenue extension of the Lexington Avenue subway of the White Plains Avenue subway of the old subway, and of the Hunt's Point Branch of the Lexington Avenue subway, have been potent determining factors in the more recent population strides
- Throgs Neck and Unionport sections will be with forty minutes of City Hall
Questions :
1) Why was additional land acquired from Weschester County to the City ?
2) Why was the "Huckleberry Road" Replaced and not any other road for the first trolley lines of the Union Railway Company in 1892 ?
Boom Predict For East Bronx Section
April 11, 1920
Notes :
- Old Residential Sections will be greatly benefited by new transit facilities
- Bronx ----> Area of which is about a mile square, and which is bounded on the north, east and west by Yonkers and Mt. Vernon and on the south by the City of New York
- The section of the annexed district consist a number of old residential settlements
- Jackson Ville, Washingtonville and Edenwald sections became populated with a substantial class of citizens who built their homes there and then waited for advent of improved facilities
- The Most important thoroughfares of this section are White Plains Road, Baychester Avenue, or East 241st Street and Nereld Avenue, or East 238th Street
- Stations on the White Plains Road Subway are located at Baychester and Nereld Avenues
- It is the expectation that the principal activity in local building operations will materialize in the early future in the immediate vicinity of these stations along the route of the White Plains Road Subway
Questions :
1) Why was their only three sections that populated with a substantial class of citizens ?
2) How Come there wasn't more important throughfares ?
More Cars for Third Avenue Elevated
April 25, 1920
Notes :
- Third Avenue Elevated will be increased by the addition of two cars to each train between 9:30 and 10 A.M
- Inspectors of the Public Service Commission were to the effect that the trains were overloaded in the morning rush hours
- Passengers found it impossible to board trains
- Public Service Commissioner Lewis Nixon has told the Interborough Rapid Transit Company that the northbound service between 5 and 6:30 P.M should also be improved
- The Company promised to amend its schedules to the end that adequate service might be rendered
Questions :
1) Why not just put more cars on the Train so it wont be overcrowded ?
2) Why wouldn't they improve the time Schedule with additional cars to the cars ?
3) The improvement of Third Avenue Elevated shouldn't only be Third Avenue station but threw out the Bronx , Why didn't they think of that during that time ?
New Transit Line Opened
May 30, 1920
Notes :
- Extension from Hunts Point to 177th Street put into Operation
- An additional section of the east side rapid transit system, extending two and a quarter miles from Hunts Point Avenue to 177th Street
- Passengers that want to reach the temporary terminal on the north will have to use the shuttle trains from 177th street
- It expected that the remaining section from 177th Street to Pelham Bay Park will be completed by this Fall
- The cost for the extension to Pelham Bay Park will be a total of $5,287,000
Questions :
1) How did they manage to pay the cost of the Pelham Bay Park Extension when they had other Extensions in progress ?
Secondary Source Documents :
New Subways From the Northern Borough
From : Lloyd Ultan
The Northern Borough : A History of The Bronx
Bronx,NY : The Bronx County Historical Society
2009
Notes :
New Subways :
- One of the Major cause of change in The Bronx after World War 1 was the completion of the new subways lines
- The first came 149th street, some trains connected with the original Bronx subway line, but others swung over onto a new line to River Avenue
- Proceeded Northward along River Avenue, then Along Jerome Avenue terminating at Woodlawn Cemetery
- The New Line Of the Woodlawn - Jerome line of the Lexington Avenue Subway opened July 17, 1918
- At the time the original Bronx subway line was extended further
- Subway Extension Opened as the the White Plains Road Line On December 13, 1920
- 8 days later the first subway line open serving easternmost portion of the Bronx
- The Pelham Bay Lined Open
- Branched off from the Lexington Avenue line soon after it crossed under the Harlem River
- The purpose of these new lines was to provide access for the people huddle in crowded Manhattan tenement districts to the more open and healthier spaces of The Bronx and the other boroughs to ease congestion on the island and give them the ability to commute to their jobs
- The Plan was successful
- In the process, just as with the New York Harlem River Railroad, the Third Avenue Elevated, and the original subway line, it served as a catalyst for the rapid development in the areas of The Bronx they Served
From : The Bronx in the Bits and Pieces
Bill Twomey
Bloomington : Rooftop Publishing, Inc.
2007
Date : December 5, 1996
Notes :
The Third Avenue El :
- The Third Avenue El was constructed in 1879
- Private Capitalist even had personal cars attached to bring them to work in style
- These were the days of the wooden cars
- Only when the subway was constructed in 1904 that electricity was used to power the The Third Avenue El
- Others will recall the " Q " cars that served the 1989 Worlds Fair with a variety of modifications
- The five-cent fare was inaugurated on October 1, 1886 and was not increased until 1948, when it went up to ten cents
- Little tokens about the size of a dime made their appearance in 1958 and cost 15 cents, today they are often used in jewelry as a remembrance of a gentler era
- In 1886, the Third Avenue El was extended into the Bronx , when the area was still known as the " Annexed District "
- Numerous opportunities opened for the people of the area wishing to work in Manhattan and live in a more countrified section
- The population soon exploded, and vacant land became scarce and valuable
- Controversy surrounds the demolition of the El
- Service in the Bronx was at first curtailed
- On Thursday, May 12, 1955, the last uptown run from Chatham Square to the Bronx commenced at 6pm with approximately 600 passengers
- Demolition crews entered this fair borough in August to begin the dismantling process
Video :
Notes :
New York City Subway Video :
- The subway boosters made a promise from City Hall to Harlem in 15 minutes
- I . R .T Generation system would be the most powerful of the world
- Month by Month the pieces came together , dynamo, switches, tunnels, platforms, track, and cars
- On October 27, 1904 , Everything was in place
- The Opening of the I . R . T was the most talked about event in New York since the Civil War
- The Subway was an insanity of an everyday life
- People complained about the subway because it was to crowded and it didn't go to far
T Q R :
I Am Studying The Pelham Bay Park Because I Want To Prove That The Extensions and The Addition of the Cars Weren't Help At First
Thesis Statement :
The Pehlam Bay Avenue And Third Avenue Elevated Extension Was All Taken Place in The 1920's, But Wasn't Been Seen As A Great Change in America Because People Said That It Got Over crowded And Needed To Add Cars To The Train During Rush Hours.
Essay :
In The 1920's their was an extension built to the Pehlman Bay Avenue and The Third Avenue, The Cost to that Extension built was $ 5,287,000. In the begging of the construction, everybody was so excited about the construction at the moment. The Pelhman Bay Avenue And Third Avenue Elevated Extension was been talked about a lot during the Period of time of 1900 - 1920.